Margaret Urlich

Margaret Urlich's first solo album Safety in Numbers went triple platinum in Australia, and took away three gongs at the 1989 NZ Music Awards. It was not her first brush with fame: Urlich had already scored hits with band Peking Man, and done her first stint with all women ensemble When the Cat's Away. Since then she had been mainly Australian-based, though she returned to New Zealand for third album The Deepest Blue (1995) and a stage production of Jesus Christ Superstar. In 1999 she covered her favourite Kiwi songs on Second Nature, which would be her last studio album. Margaret Urlich died of cancer on 22 August 2022, at age 57.